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Hillsboro Rotary Club's Community Service Projects committee is very active. They work with Home Plate to feed homeless teenagers, Meals On Wheels to help provide meals for seniors, obtaining grants and matching funds for projects in our local high schools and these are only a few of the projects taken on by this ambitious committee. If you think that you have a project that might be of interest to the Hillsboro Rotary Club send an email to:

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Famed motivational speaker Michael Angelo Caruso, who has spoken at the Rotary International Convention, among other venues is coming to Hillsboro. Seats are limited and you won't want to miss this one. Our club is fortunate to have such a renowned speaker available. Sign up now to be assured a space at this fantastic program. To register online click on Register

HRC was proud to induct four new members into the club at our last meeting. Mike McMurray, Membership Committee Chair welcomed them into our fold with enthusiasm! Pictured here left to right are the new members and their sponsors: Dave Marcotte and sponsor, Bob Rollinger; sponsor, Marie Tyler and Chief Deputy Bill Steele and Jason Kamna; Neal Davis and his sponsor John McMeekan; Pres. Jeff and Chair Mike. The four new members will be giving their "free, brief bio" of themselves over the next couple of meetings.

Our Student of the Month last week was Miles Trinidad, a Senior at Glencoe High School. Miles is the co-editor in chief of Glencoe's newspaper. He is an avid volunteer and was impressed with Rotary's dedication to service both locally and globally. He has volunteered many times for NHS and Key Club while at Glencoe. He enjoys writing about people's stories stating that there are so many out there in the world that need telling! He plans to attend the University of Oregon and major in journalism. Much luck to Miles as he pursues his studies and dreams!

Ruth Zuniga received her blue badge at our meeting on Thursday. It has been a busy year for Ruth, having just returned from having a baby, and now she has fullfiled the requirements for a blue badge. Congratulations Ruth!

It is with sorrow that we note the passing of long time Rotarian Eion Scott. Scotty was head agronomist at Iwasaki Brothers nursery in Hillsboro for many years. He made several trips to Eastern European countries on his personal time to help educate others in crop production techniques. He was active in International projects and other areas in our club. Several times he was called upon to present the program at our weekly meetings. His programs were both highly informative and well as very humorous. Scotty knew how to inject just the right amount of humor to make his presentations interesting to all. We will miss you and we send our best wishes to your family.

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Enjoying calm winds and peaceful Pacific waters, Seung Jin Kim dove off his 43-foot sailboat, the Arapani, to swim with some dolphins nearby. The serenity that day near the equator was a stark contrast to the 60 mph winds and 23-foot waves he had to fight around Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. But Kim, a veteran sailor and member of the Rotary Club of Seokmun, in Chungcheongnam, Korea, expected such challenges when he set out in mid-October on a 25,600-mile journey around the world. In addition to fulfilling a lifelong dream, Kim is using the trip to raise awareness and funds...

After the first cases of Ebola reached Liberia's capital, Monrovia, last June, local Rotary members feared that the city's limited health care system wouldn't be able to contain the highly infectious, often-deadly disease.
Those fears were realized when infections quickly multiplied, underscoring the speed with which Ebola can spread in an urban center. It was the first time the hemorrhagic fever had threatened a major city since it erupted in West Africa last March.
Now, after months of crisis-level response, and with the number of new cases declining, club members are looking to the long...

Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been...

Members of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening meet at a wine bar after work, share a social outing, and promote all their activities on social media like Meetup and Facebook.
As the first evening club in the city, it has attracted many young professionals from Silicon Valley tech firms whose work schedules keep them from joining a more traditional club that meets for breakfast or lunch. But more than that, the evening format has helped the club grow by 30 percent since it received its charter in mid-2013.
Danielle Lallement, who was its charter president, says the club has been...

Blighted schools in the mountain city of Peja in western Kosovo are a reminder of the ethnic strife and war that ravaged this area in the 1990s.
To restore ruined sanitation facilities in some of those schools, local Rotary members recently partnered with their counterparts from Colorado, USA. Though residents have been slowly rebuilding the city's infrastructure after years of neglect under earlier governments, most resources are going to improve roads, rebuild homes, and create new businesses. Little money remains to restore the schools.
As a result, students have fallen ill, stayed home...